DBMS Questions

1. What is database?

2. What is DBMS?

3. What is a Database system?

4. What is the role of Database Administrator ?

5. Disadvantage in File Processing System?

6. Describe the three levels of data abstraction?

7. Define the "integrity rules"

8. What is extension and intension?

9. What is Data Independence?

10. What do you mean by Data processing ?

11. Which part of the RDBMS takes care of the data dictionary? How

12. What do you mean by instance & schema ? Explain the difference between these.

13. What is the difference between Procedural DML and Non-Procedural DML ?

14. What is a view? How it is related to data independence?

15. What is Data Model?

16. What is E-R model?

17. What do you mean by Hierarchical model ?

18. What is an Entity?

19. What is an Entity type?

20. What is an Entity set?

21. What is a composite attribute? Give examples.

22. What is a single valued attribute? Give examples.

23. What is a multi-valued attribute? Give examples.

24. What do you mean by cardinality? What are different kinds of cardinalities ?

25. What is an Extension of entity type?

26. What is the difference between the strong entity set and weak entity set ?

27. Define subtype and supertype entities ?

28. Give example of following relationships :

a. Many-to-One
b. One-to-One

c. One-to-Many

d. Many-to-Many

29. What is an attribute?

30. What is a Relation Schema and a Relation?

31. What is degree of a Relation?

32. What is Relationship, Relationship set, and Relationship type?

33. What is degree of Relationship type?

34. What is SDL (Storage Definition Language)?

35. What is Data Storage - Definition Language?

36. What is DDL, DCL, and DML (Data Manipulation Language)?

37. What is VDL (View Definition Language)?

38. Consider the following tables:

Employee (Emp_no, Name, Emp_city)

Company (Emp_no, Company_name, Salary)

i. Write a SQL query to display Employee name and company name.

ii. Write a SQL query to display employee name, employee city ,company name and

salary of all the employees whose salary >10000

iii. Write a query to display all the employees working in ‘XYZ’ company.

39. What is Relational Algebra?

40. What are the unary operations in Relational Algebra?

41. Explain various operators used in relational algebra.

42. What do you mean by atomicity and aggregation?

43. Differentiate between Cartesian product and natural join operations used in relational

algebra.

44. What are the primitive operations common to all record management systems

45. What is a primary key ?

46. Define foreign key ? How does it play a role in the join operation ?

47. What are various Data types in SQL ?

48. What do you mean by SQL ?What are the characteristics of SQL ?

49. Explain Triggers and its types with examples.

51. What is meant by static SQL? How it differs from dynamic SQL?

52. How are the nulls represented in database system?

53. What are aggregate functions?

54. What is the purpose of group by clause in the SELECT statement?

55. What are views? How they are created?

56. What do you mean by integrity constraints ?

57. Which subdivision of SQL is used to put values in tables and which one to create tables ?

58. Differentiate between SQL commands DROP TABLE and DROP VIEW.

59. What is the difference between WHERE and Having Clause ?

60. Discuss the various type of join operations ? Why are these join required.

61. How are exceptions handled in PL/SQL? Give some of the internal exceptions' name

62. What are stored-procedures? And what are the advantages of using them.

63. What are cursors give different types of cursors.

64. What is normalization?

65. What are Armstrong rules?

66. Explain the codd’s rules for relational database design.

67. Explain Functional dependency and Trivial functional dependency with examples.

68. Explain the term Distributed DBMS and Client-Server DBMS

69. Define the relational data model.

70. What is Functional Dependency?

71. What do you mean by redundancy ?How this can be avoided ?

72. When is a functional dependency F said to be minimal?

73. What is Multivalued dependency?

74. What is Lossless join property?

75. What is Fully Functional dependency?

76. What is lossy decomposition?

77. What is transitive dependency?

78. What is 1NF, 2NF, 3NF and BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form)?

79. Explain Closure of Set of Functional dependency and Closure of Attribute sets

80. Explain Canonical cover and Extraneous Attributes with examples.